Why moderates are so often bad news

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128. Marriage equality and marijuana reform have progressed because of activists who never stopped

working for that progress no matter how often Moderates and Conservatives held demonstrations against us or called us names. People died and went to prison and all sorts of great sacrifices were made to get that progress.
We made the Center and Right wing irrelevant.

WW2 was heavily protested in advance of US entry to the war, so yeah, decades ago people protested wars in advance. Same for WW1.



"But from 1939 through 1941, Americans were deeply divided between interventionism and isolationism.

"It's so easy, again, to look back and say, 'Well, all the things that the isolationists said were wrong,' " author Lynne Olson tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. " ... But back then, you know, in '39, '40 and most of '41, people didn't know that. People had no idea what was going to happen."

Olson's new book, Those Angry Days, shines the spotlight on the national debate over whether to go to war in Europe. President Franklin Roosevelt led the interventionist charge, while aviator Charles Lindbergh became an unofficial leader of the isolationist movement."
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/26/175288241/angry-days-shows-an-america-torn-over-entering-world-war-ii